Good News in History, June 21
Happy 59th Birthday to eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. The computer geek entrepreneur became a billionaire at age 31 when the company’s stock was offered for sale to the public three years after the first eBay auction in 1995. READ more about Omidyar and his activities… (1967) Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists through their […]
The kindness section highlights people helping people: strangers stepping in during emergencies, communities rallying around neighbors, small acts that ripple outward. These are not performative charity stories; they are moments where someone chose to act when they did not have to.
British startup Bactery says its battery, powered by bacteria, uses nature’s microbes to generate an unending trickle of…
It’s estimated that 30,000 Scottish football fans descended on the city of Boson last week, and the ensuing shenanigans …
At the age of 14, Dylan was diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer-and doctors gave him just eight months to live. But he’…
A woman was stunned when Britain’s longest dragonfly stopped to hitch a ride-on her thumb. Sarah Hawkes came across the …